Was the black death a virus?

Answer 1

There is some debate over this:
"The plague disease, caused by Yersinia pestis, is endemic in populations of ground rodents in central Asia, but it is not entirely clear where the fourteenth-century pandemic started..."
"In 1984, Graham Twigg published The Black Death: A Biological Reappraisal, where he argued that the climate and ecology of Europe and particularly England made it nearly impossible for rats and fleas to have transmitted bubonic plague..."
"In 2003, researchers from Oxford University tested 121 teeth from sixty-six skeletons found in fourteenth-century mass graves. The remains showed no genetic trace of Y. pestis..."
"Norman F. Cantor, in his 2001 book In the Wake of the Plague, suggests the Black Death might have been a combination of pandemics including a form of anthrax..."
"In 2001, epidemiologists Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan from Liverpool University proposed the theory that the Black Death might have been caused by an Ebola-like virus, not a bacterium..."

So, it could have been bacteria, virus, or even both, no real way to prove anything, yet, if people are still arguing over it.

Answer 2

Black Death was also called bubonic plague and was caused by a bacterium called Pasteurells pestis. It was spread by rat fleas who bit infected rats and then bit humans after their rodent host died. It is estimated that it killed 25% of the human population of Europe in the middle ages.

Answer 3

it was a bacterial strain that from time of contact till time of death was about 6 weeks remember unsanitary conditions of the times medical ignorance overcrowding garbage rodent and flea were a part of every day life its cousin Yersina Pestes is much deadlier aka Pneumonic plague it mimics flu symptoms and from time of contact untill death is 72 hours unless is treated immediately last known outbreak was in Colorado in 1975-76 around 20,000 fatal Gorbalizer

Answer 4

Nope, it was caused by bacteria, Yersinia pestis.

Answer 5

A bacteria.

Answer 6

Yes it was, it was call eboticas genauses

Answer 7

don't know